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Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by radec » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 3:31 AM UTC

phito wrote: post #23

lmilcin wrote: post #19

Nice concept. Unfortunately, I have tried to identify some of my plants but it could not identify correctly a single one. Just an endless procession of at best similar plants, most of the time completely dissimilar. I think this is another naive model that just tries to push entire problem to AI. That is unfortunately what I am seeing nowadays, very unimaginative. Just try to have fun with parameters of the network u…

Right. This kind of thing is only going to work on very common plants that are easy to ID. I am very into carnivorous plants and even us experts sometimes have trouble identifying plants, often you need very specific morphological details to ID species that a phone picture will never be able to catch. IMO this will just lead people to wrongly ID their plants more often than not, and that's a really bad thing.

Not sure if this will put your mind at ease or not. But I really like learning plants, I hike a lot and usually the only book I bring is a plant ID book. But I'm not good at knowing where to start looking in the book. I find apps like this (I use Seek) incredibly helpful, I don't just assume the app is correct but it gives me a place to start looking in the book. That said, I also don't assume I'm correct when I find what I think it is in the book. Anyway just wanted to say I find plant I'd apps a helpful learning tool.

I will say though, most of the time I don't have service where I'm IDing plants, so it's not the most convenient tool.

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by injidup » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 2:12 PM UTC

chefandy wrote: post #66

injidup wrote: post #6

Awesome. It identified my fully grown pepper (capsicum ) plants as spinach. What could go wrong?

At least it didn't identify it as "not hot dog." I wonder how much funding these guys have, and how much of it I could get by intentionally non-fatally poisoning myself with a misidentified plant? How much indemnity can the whole "WHILE WE ENDEAVOUR TO ENSURE THAT THE INFORMATION ON THE CANDIDE PLATFORM ARE CORRECT, WE DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY AND COMPLETENESS [...]" thing actually provide?

Or you could try smuggling misidentified spinach across the Mexican/USA border and see how far blaming the app gets you :)

Re: Candide – Identify Plants with a Photo

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Post by Vivtek » Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 7:23 PM UTC

Well, it gets easy ones pretty well - misidentified arabica coffee as robusta but did at least get "coffee", and identified a mango tree - but tricky ones (the various weed trees on our farm) are even more hopeless than my own efforts.

To be fair, it's probably for houseplants more than anything. On the other hand, half the stuff growing on a tropical farm is houseplants.

Wish there were more information about their model.